Language-Knowledge Production and Communication

Can knowledge produced in english or french (or any colonial language) ever fully capture the realities of cultures where those languages aren’t native?

If language shapes thought, does the dominance of western languages (English, French, etc.) in academia reinforce western worldviews, even when researching non-western subjects?

What forms of knowledge may be lost when research is conducted in a coloniser’s language, and can this loss ever be truly mitigated?